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Pakistani state 'wages selective war on militants'

Militants in north-west Pakistan have attacked a university in Charsadda killing at least nineteen people.Two Pakistani Taliban figures have given opposing statements: one saying they carried out the assault, another denying this and calling the attack "un-Islamic." Christine Fair from the Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University in Washington explained what might be behind these contradictory statements.
(Photo:Pakistani soldiers secure Bacha Khan University after attack by gunmen; Credit: European Photopress Agency)

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